Raymond Williams

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Raymond Williams (1921 - 1988) was a highly influential Welsh socialist academic, novelist and critic. He was Professor of Drama at the University of Cambridge (1974 - 1983).

• Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.
  • Realism and the Contemporary Novel - The Long Revolution (1961)

• The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.
  • Realism and the Contemporary Novel - The Long Revolution (1961)

• Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
  • Keywords (1983)

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